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- Nov 07, 2020
Design Quotes
On design as history, craft, and a single creative umbrella.
A few quotes here take a long historical view, tracing design back to early stone tools and ancient flutes long before the word itself existed. For more, see Creativity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.
- Customer
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
- Box
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
- Apprehensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My design philosophy is to make women feel like peacocks.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.
- Brightest
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- Nov 07, 2020
But design has never been a Europe-only project. The best of design has global influences. And we've got to design the future immigration system to make sure that we continue to attract the brightest and best.
- Line
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.
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- Nov 07, 2020